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Dateline: 17th January, 2007

Meyer-Whitworth Award - Last Call

The deadline is approaching for submissions for the Meyer-Whitworth Award 2007. From this year the award will be run by the Playwrights' Studio, Scotland in association with the UK Playwrights Network.

Supported by the National Theatre Foundation through a prize fund of £10,000, the Meyer-Whitworth Award is intended to help further the careers of UK playwrights who are not yet established.

The award is also intended to draw to public attention the importance of writers in contemporary theatre. In doing so it honours one of the six objectives formulated by the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre in 1909 “to produce new plays and to further the development of the modern drama”

The award is made to the writer whose play, in the judges’ opinion, most satisfies the following description:

• a play which embodies Geoffrey Whitworth’s dictum that “drama is important in so far as it reveals the truth about the relationships of human beings with each other and the world at large”
• a play which shows promise of a developing new talent
• a play in which the writing is of individual quality

The judges reserve the right to advise that no script meets the required standards of the award and that therefore the award should not be made.

• The value of the award is up to £10,000. The award is given by a panel of three judges. The judges’ decision is final.
• Nominations must be made by directors of professional theatre companies.
• Plays nominated must be in the English language and have been produced professionally in the UK for the first time between 1 August 2005 and 30 November 2006.
• Candidates will have had no more than two of their plays professionally produced, including the play submitted.
• No writer who has previously won the award may reapply, and no play that has previously been submitted for the award is eligible
• . A play submitted for consideration must be an original work. Translations are not eligible.

How to nominate a Play
Contact Playwrights' Studio, Scotland on info@playwrightsstudio.co.uk to request an application form.

The deadline for entries is 28 February 2007.

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